CVE-2024-49856

CVE-2024-49856 — Linux kernel, x86 SGX: deadlock in SGX NUMA node search. When the current node lacks an EPC section and other EPCs are exhausted, the loop searching for a remote EPC page can deadlock, causing a soft lockup. The root cause is that nid_of_current is not set in sgx_numa_mask, so ni...

CVE-2024-49856: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/sgx: Fix deadlock in SGX NUMA node search When the current node doesn't have an EPC section configured by firmware and all other EPC sections are used up, CPU can get stuck inside the while loop that looks for an available EP...